Writing English A: Describing & characterizing people・人物を描写、性格の描写

Hello!

How are you? Let's look at how to describe people (人物を描写する).

1. Look at the picture at the top:

This woman has long black hair and closed eyes. Her hand is on her head. 

2. Now here are some extra details about her: 

She looks stressed out.  

3. So, a sample description (例え描写) about her looks like this: 

This woman has long black hair and closed eyes. Her hand is on her head. She looks stressed out.    

4. Now connect some of your sentences, and go on to write more about what you think of the person, and what she is doing:

This woman has long black hair and closed eyes. Her hand is on her head, and she looks stressed out.. I think she's...

Activity/homework
Now let's try to do the same thing - choose two (2) of the people in the pictures below. Write a short paragraph (描写) about each person:

1. What he or she looks like, the clothes he or she is wearing, and what he or she is doing.

2. What you think his or her feelings are, and why he or she feels the way you think. 

Note: In some of the pictures, you might not see the person's clothes, so you can just write about what they look like and how you think they feel. 

1.

2

This person has black shoulder-length hair and dark eyes. She's slender and good-looking. She's wearing a black sweater and gray scarf with blue jeans. I think she's...

 2. 2.

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5..

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Have fun!

Here are the board notes for the class on 4/17:

See you next time!

Photo credits: 1. "Beautiful Young Woman" (courtesy of posterize) 2. "Preparing For Dinner" (courtesy of imagerymajestic) 3. "Smiling little girl 

Images: Top - "Asian Woman Have A Headache" (courtesy of tiverylucky)/1. "Beautiful Young Woman" (courtesy of posterize)/2. "Preparing For Dinner" (courtesy of imagerymajestic)/3. "Seated African Child" (courtesy of africa)/4. "Older Man With Hat" (courtesy of Rosemary Ratcliff)/5. "Young Man Thinking Seriously" (courtesy of pod pad)/6. "Old African Man" (courtesy of africa)/7. "Asian Woman Smiling On The Bedroom Floor" (courtesy of Feelart)/All images from FreeDigitalPhotos.net

作文6サポート「語り物の節」/6th writing assignment support: narrative paragraphs

Hello!

How are you? Today you will be working on your 6th writing assignment - your strange, interesting, unique, or funny stories to your partners. But as some extra support for all of you, here's  a little practice for you about narrative paragraph writing (語り物節の書き). 

I saw from my homework check that some of you still have trouble putting parts of a story in the right order. So here is some practice for you if you need it. 

First, I will help you by giving you the background information at the beginning.

Activity

Background information

Let me tell you about a time I flew to Hong Kong on a business trip.

Now - which order should these next parts go in? Which parts are they? Which parts are the beginning of the story, the middle, and the end? They are all mixed up. Decide with your partner what the right order should be, and number the order (2 - beginning of story; 3, 4, & 5 - middle of story; 6 - end of story). 

Please remember that there are three (3) parts to the middle of the story!

So when the flight attendant came to take my dinner tray away, I immediately got out of my seat and went to check the noise from the bathroom. No-one seemed to notice the noise, but I could hear it. 

Before dinner was served by the flight attendant, I heard a strange sound coming from the bathroom behind me. I didn't think anything of it while I was eating because it stopped, but it started again after I finished. 

Suddenly a beautiful woman came and put her arm behind her head. She looked at me and said, "you know you can't get him out." After she said that I turned to see the door with the man, but he had stopped. When I saw this I turned to where she had stood, but she was gone. 

After I noticed this, I felt someone shaking my shoulder and hearing "wake up, sir. Wake up, sir." I had been asleep and had been dreaming. I was so glad! But then I looked up to see the flight attendant. She was the same woman who had been in my dream!

I pushed it open and inside was a man's hands up against another, clear door, but with a strong green light behind him. He was beating the door with his hands trying to get out, but he couldn't open it. 

When I got to the door, I could hear that it sounded like a man crying and screaming to get out. I saw a green light coming through the bottom of the door. 

Good luck! Have fun with this!

Image: "Floor with Hand" (courtesy of luigi diamanti)/FreeDigitalPhotos.net 
Answer to activity:

人物を描写している/describing people

Hello!

How are you? Let's look at how to describe people (人物を描写する).

1. Look at the picture at the top:

This man has short black hair and dark eyes. His hands are near his mouth. 

2. Now here are some extra details about him: 

He looks like he's thinking deeply.  

3. So, a sample description (例え描写) about him looks like this: 

This man has short black hair and dark eyes. His hands are near his mouth. He looks like he's thinking deeply.  

4. Now connect some of your sentences, and go on to write more about what you think of the person, and what he is doing:

This man has short black hair and dark eyes. His hands are near his mouth, and he looks like he's thinking deeply. I think he's...

Activity/homework
Now let's try to do the same thing - choose two (2) of the people in the pictures below. Write a paragraph (描写) about each person:

1. What he or she looks like, the clothes he or she is wearing, and what he or she is doing.

2. What you think his or her feelings are, and why he or she feels the way you think. 

Note: In some of the pictures, you might not see the person's clothes, so you can just write about what  they look like and how you think they feel. 

1.
1.

2

This person has black shoulder-length hair and dark eyes. She's slender and good-looking. She's wearing a black sweater and gray scarf with blue jeans. I think she's...

2. 
2.

3
 3. 

4.
4. 

5.
5.
5.

6.

6.l

7.

7. 

Have fun!

Photo credits: 1. "Beautiful Young Woman" (courtesy of posterize) 2. "Preparing For Dinner" (courtesy of imagerymajestic) 3. "Smiling little girl 

Images: Top - "Young Man Thinking Seriously" (courtesy of pod pad)/1. "Beautiful Young Woman" (courtesy of posterize)/2. "Preparing For Dinner" (courtesy of imagerymajestic)/3. "Seated African Child" (courtesy of africa)/4. "Older Man With Hat" (courtesy of Rosemary Ratcliff)/5. "Asian Woman Have A Headache" (courtesy of tiverylucky)/6. "Old African Man" (courtesy of africa)/7. "Asian Woman Smiling On The Bedroom Floor" (courtesy of Feelart)/All images from FreeDigitalPhotos.net

場所を描写している/describing places

Hello!

How are you? Today, let's do some writing about places! 

Look at the picture above. What feelings do you get about the place in the picture? What adjectives (形容詞) do you think of when you see this church? 

例えば： mysterious —> It's a mysterious church. 

Activity
Here is an activity for you. Look at these pictures. What adjectives (形容詞) do you think of when you see these places? Pair your adjectives with a noun (名詞). Write them down in your notes.  

See you next time!

Images: Top - "Old Historical Church" (courtesy of Stuart Miles)/Ruins - "Ancient Ruins In Delphi" (courtesy of thephotoholic)/both from FreeDigitalPhotos.net/subsequent images unattributed photographs reproduced from from National Geographic/Bottom - personal photograph. All rights reserved to copyright holder(s) of National Geographic images. All rights reserved on personal image. National Geographic images uploaded for classroom use only.